Burger King goes on the offensive to win back customers less and less convinced. Director North America of fast food chain, Steve Wiborg, detailed this weekend at USA Today's battle plan. It comes in three areas: promoting healthier recipes to the menu (chicken, fruit smoothies …), new decoration of restaurants and extensive advertising campaign. [...]
To reduce public debt, the leaders of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives proposed a radical reform of the taxation system and health insurance of the elderly. The plan presented yesterday in Washington also plans to monitor more closely the rise in government spending, except for the post of defense.
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The Chinese have hit hard. They decided to freeze orders 45 Airbus to protest against the carbon tax that the European Commission imposed from January 1 to all airlines flying over European airspace. Beijing remember vividly that he has very strong case when a trading partner dares challenge him. The Middle Kingdom also knows [...]
In the exclusive club of head offices, campuses are overshadowed by the towers. Straw! Effect of crisis or new building design? In the district of La Defense business, renovations progressing at a slow speed. First Tower, Axa old tower, was delivered in late 2011. Carpe Diem, down from its 38 floors, will be ready [...]
The report by the Center for Strategic Analysis in a housing report released Wednesday is brutal: while the subject of aid mobilizes huge (37 billion euros) from the State and local governments, households the less fortunate spend more on housing. In 2005, they spent at this position 41.4% of their income against 25% in [...]
To receive a new grant of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, the Greek parliament must adopt a new set of austerity measures. Since the crisis began in September 2009, the addition of austerity plans that inflicts Athens in the emergency exceeds the 169 billion euros. Some are new, others have already [...]
Vivendi has just launched the ultimate consolidation of the global music market. The parent company of Universal Music, the world of music, has completed the acquisition of the British major EMI music to 1.2 billion pounds or 1.4 billion euros. This reduces the number of actors operating globally to three: Universal Music, Sony and [...]
Fever in the last two sessions, the stock exchange operators have not hesitated this time to express frankly their relief on Thursday after the closure last night by the euro area the outline of an anti-crisis plan. After starting the session on a jump of almost 3%, the CAC 40 finished up sharply from [...]
The Paris Bourse is febrile Wednesday. Halfway through, the CAC 40 in advance of 1.14% to 3176.80 points. Investors remain focused on the problems of sovereign debt in Europe. After the chill cast on the French note, Moody's downgraded two notches from last night's sovereign rating of Spain, which went from A1 to Aa2 [...]
More than three hundred protesters gathered Friday outside the headquarters of France-Soir, avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, when the works examined the abandonment of the paper and the daily passage of the first all-digital in January. This shift will be the first made by the editor of a newspaper of general information.
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